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Bolshevik Party, largely responsible for tms
revolution, has aftet raising itself to pov^^
instituted similar terrorism and suppression as
also denial of political activity to large masses
of the Russian people That there is a denial or
political and individual liberty in Russia is admitt^1
even by Mr. M. R. Masani, the Secretary ^
the Indian Socialist Party who visited Russia
in 1935. He writes in his ( Soviet Sidelight :

<( At the same time the fact cannot be ignored
that even within the Party (the Commoxsist
Party) the right to oppose the official line of
the Party, which means that of its 'great leader
and teacher Stain,9 is denied. Trotsky, not to*
mention many a smaller man, is a livkig
testimony to that fact/' The dangers inherent
in revolutionary methods and the evils 9^
dictatorships will be discussed later in the
Chapter on Methods in this book. Suffice it to
say here, that the method of force adopted in the
process of social change will undoubtedly bring the
whole edifice of Socialism to the ground. And if
this does not actually happen it will transform
itself into a society left at the mercy of opposing
political adventurers^ Such a society "will meain